More than just a sobriety date

Due to being a relatively new field, unfortunately there are many unqualified or inexperienced people in recovery claiming to be alcohol and drug intervention specialists. Focusing on the short-term and ignoring the larger picture, they often make the mistake of just "talking someone into treatment at any cost". Using ultimatums and coercion, they may temporarily get your loved one to agree to go. But unfortunately for you, three days later, your loved one has checked himself out of rehab and your "intervention specialist" has flown back home. In worse situations, an inexperienced interventionist can do more damage than good.

A drug or alcohol intervention should be a life changing process, more than simply getting your loved one into treatment. An intervention should help to empower the family and begin to restore the wreckage that the substance abuse has caused. It should answer the questions about why the addiction began, what contributes to it, and how to help prevent it from recurring. It should continue long after your loved one agrees to treatment.

You should be comfortable with the interventionist or service that you choose, for he will be helping you to bring your family back together. At Intervention Services and Technololgies, Inc we employ over 10 full-time interventionists spanning various age brackets, cultural, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. The idea is to fit the appropriate interventionist with the addict. Our 55 year-old former alcoholic interventionist might not be the ideal fit for a 21 year-old methamphetamine drug dealing addict and it is for that reason that we have such a wide diversity in backgrounds.

From a personal recovery standpoint, each of our drug and alcohol intervention specialists have been directly affected by addiction in their personal lives as well, whether being a former addict, the familly member of an addict or both. Founded by two brothers suffering from addiction, we have been exactly where you and your loved one has been.

In terms of qualifications and credentials, each of our intervention specialists have, at a minimum, certifications as Chemical Dependency Counselors. Many have Degrees in Addictions Counseling, Psychology, Social Work or Theology. Most of us have been employed in other professions within the treatment field, working as Directors, Case Managers, or Substance Abuse Counselors at leading drug and alcohol treatment facilities. But the most important creditional is our passion. Helping thousands of addicts and families to find sobriety and recovery, each of us has dedicated our lives to helping others. Because years earlier in each of our lives, someone was once there for us.